单词 | apery |
释义 | aperyn. 1. The practice of an aper; aping; pretentious or silly mimicry. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > silly imitation apishness1533 mockerya1616 apery1616 aping1687 monkeyism1823 monkeyishness1824 apism1843 codding1892 1616 J. Hayward Sanctuarie Troubled Soule (1620) ii. §6 133 An outward Apery of Religion. 1708 W. Darrell Suppl. to 1st Pt. Gentleman Instructed v. 107 Hate..Hipocrisy as Poison, and a base Complaisance as meer Apery. 1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 132 Women, dressed..in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery of European fashions. 2. concrete. A pretentious imitation. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > of furniture, textiles, etc. apery1812 reproduction1912 repro1952 knock-off1966 1812 G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 123 His rooms were crowded with Etruscan aperies. 3. A silly or apish action or performance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > silly imitation > an instance of apery1851 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. x. 285 The..sickly superstitious aperies and impostures of the time. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xx. 372 A young Fritzchen's cradle, who..will speak and do aperies one day. 4. A collection or colony of apes. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > group of shrewdnessa1452 apery1863 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vi, in Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 217/2 More apish than the apes of all aperies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1616 |
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